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2010 Jun 11
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comparing reshape's
I thought I would share the following. System: Mac Pro 2.26GHz, OSX, 8GB of memory (not a constraint), R 2.11.0, 64bit version. Task: I have a long data set: 2.2 million long observations (factor xid, factor yid, variable zcontent), which I want to map into a sparse matrix of 948 columns and 16,350 rows. There are two commonly used functions to accomplish this: library(stats); outcome = reshape( subset(mydataframe, select=c(yid,xid,zcontent), timevar="yid", idvar="xid", direction="wide")...